Chimps Tour - Kigoma / Gombe - 4 Nights/ 5 Days
Day one - Fly Dar / Kigoma:
7:00 AM - Pick up from the hotel in Dar es salaam.
Transfer to Dar airport for your scheduled flight to Kigoma
9:05 AM - Arrive at Kigoma airport. Pick up by hotel vehicle
Transfer to Kigoma Town.
Dinner at Sangara restaurant
Overnight at KIGOMA HILLTOP HOTEL (HB)
Day two
7:00 AM - Breakfast
Afterwards proceed for Chimpanzee tracking in the forest
Gombe Stream’s main attraction is obviously the chimpanzee families that live protected in the park’s boundaries. Visitors take walks deep into the forest to observe and sit with the extraordinary primates for an entire morning. Apart from chimpanzee viewing, many other species of primates live in Gombe Stream’s tropical forests. Vervet and colobus monkeys, baboons, forest pigs and dik dik inhabit the dense forest and a wide variety of tropical birdlife. l
Afterwards proceed for Chimpanzee tracking in the forest
Gombe Stream’s main attraction is obviously the chimpanzee families that live protected in the park’s boundaries. Visitors take walks deep into the forest to observe and sit with the extraordinary primates for an entire morning. Apart from chimpanzee viewing, many other species of primates live in Gombe Stream’s tropical forests. Vervet and colobus monkeys, baboons, forest pigs and dik dik inhabit the dense forest and a wide variety of tropical birdlife.
Dinner and overnight at GOMBE LUXURY TENTED CAMP
Day three - Gombe Steam:
7:00 AM - Breakfast
8:00 AM - Chimpanzee tracking in the forest
Climb to Kakombe waterfalls if time allows
Meals and overnight at GOMBE LUXURY TENTED CAMP
Day four - Gombe Stream:
7:00 AM - Breakfast
8:00 AM - Chimpanzee tracking in the forest
Climb to Jane Godall’s peak
Meals and overnight at GOMBE LUXURY TENTED CAMP
Day five - Gombe Stream:
7:00 AM - Breakfast
8:45 AM - Transfer to the lake shore for departure by boat to Kigoma
Pick up upon arrival and transfer to Kigoma Hilltop Hotel
12:30 PM - Lunch at the hotel
14:00 - Proceed for a short sightseeing tour of Kigoma and Ujiji Town
Later transfer to the airport for your scheduled flight to Dar es Salaam
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HISTORY OF GOMBE
Gombe Stream National Park is located in western Tanzania, 10 miles north of Kigoma, the regional capital of western Tanzania. Established in 1968, Gombe is the smallest national park in Tanzania, with only 20 square miles of forest running along the hills of the northern shore of Lake Tanganyika. The terrain is distinguished by steep valleys, and the forest vegetation ranges from grassland to alpine bamboo to evergreen rainforest. Accessible only by boat, the park is most famous as the location where Jane Goodall pioneered her behavioral research conducted on the chimpanzee populations.The Kasakela chimpanzee community, featured in several books and documentaries, lives in Gombe Stream National Park.
Gombe Stream’s high levels of diversity make it an increasingly popular tourist destination. Besides chimpanzees, primates inhabiting Gombe Stream include beachcomber olive baboons, red-tailed and colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys and the anubis baboon.The park is also home to over 200 bird species and bushpigs. There are also 11 species of snakes, and occasional hippopotamus and leopards. Visitors to the park can trek into the forest to view the chimpanzees, as well as swim and snorkel in Lake Tanganyika with almost 100 kinds of colorful cichlid fish.
